Mike Ashe

I use PaintShopPro version 7.02 You might also want to Google on "emf file editor" or look at: http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Best/edit-emf-file.html which has several other options. PSP has met my needs for a while in this area, so I have stuck with it. YMMV

Okay, I should clarify before someone thinks I'm bashing LabVIEW. My quote above is an illustration of the "tool" simile, not any dissatisfaction with LabVIEW. I've said before, if NI ported LabVIEW to a washing machine I'd probably try a copy. That is not flippant, graphical programming is simply a better paradigm and at the moment, LabVIEW is the only real representative. If someone came up with a better product, I'd happily switch. I don't expect to have to do that any time before I retire in 15-20 years. Yep ...

Thanks Michael, that did it.M.

True, YMMV. I think, in retrospect that a lot of the problem at the time was that the only ISP in my area that offered DSL obviously did not have a very clean network and should have had better firewalls and filters of their own. Unfortuantely, switching to a different ISP would have meant going back to dialup and modems, and having once tasted DSL speeds I just couldn't bring myself to go back. In any event, after the switch I didn't have to worry, and I'm now convinced FF is a better product. LabVIEW is also just a tool, but I'm not very interested in going back to C or it's derivatives any time soon ... Back to the thread, has anyone yet installed IE7 ? Does it have any new really compelling features? I didn't see any when I went to it's page at MS. Does anyone know if it ads any nifty new ActiveX controls/methods that would be useful in LabVIEW apps on PC's?

Not to give a step by step, but you can do some fun things with the lighted pushbutton, vs the system. When you get into the parts window you note that the light and background graphics are independent of the main button and can be independently edited. Have fun If you use an enhanced metafile (*.emf) you keep the transparency and benefit from scalable vector graphics as well.

You are very welcome. By the way, if you do come up with something interesting in LabVIEW as a result, it would be nice if you would post it here on LAVA. Again, good luck.

I used to agree, in fact I kept using IE and OutLook for a long time when everyone around me seemed to be jumping on to this or that new tool. I said, "gee, it's just a browser, I don't care". But then I eventually got tired of all the spyware and other stuff that kept getting on my machine, even with Norton running and antispyware sweepers. It just got to be a pain. I was running AdAware every other day, then everyday to clean the crap off. Norton was popping up all the time telling me that it had just foiled another attempted hijack, or that a virus had just been detected, etc. When I first installed FireFox and Thunderbird it was with great reluctance. But a week later Norton had not alarmed even once and AdAware had found nothing on my machine. I haven't looked back since. It isn't the features of the tools that changed me (although I loved tabs once I'd used them) it was security and stability issues.

Sadly, some large companies have a legal department that is afraid of getting sued if they use open source code. They are worried that someone will put proprietary code into the open source, then after it is distributed the owner of the code will find out and sue. Naturally the suer would never go ofter the little guy who put the code in, lawyers don't bother with that, they go after whomever they can who has the deepest pockets, ie, major corporations. Sad but true. Part of the reason for this is that most of the open source code that we would have available in LabVIEW is licensed under LGPL, which is overly long (what was it? 16 or so paragraph/clauses? ). There is a possibility of relicensing the OGTK using the BSD license, which is simple and lets end users do just about anything as long as they don't come back to sue the originals.

You mean you updated just the link? Not much info on the page I see now. More to come soon

Barrie, nice tool, but since you saved in a library you might want to save with options and include the specific OGTK VIs in the library. Some companies won't let us use the whole toolkit, but individual VIs are okay.

Once upon a time I did something like this where we created a RAM Drive and stored the files there for processing, then only select files were copied to a physical drive. Very fast, but special circumstances.

Rules are made to be followed, until you decide to break them. The important thing is to know them and know when to break them. I use them to inforce dataflow when all else fails and then occasionally just for decorative purposes to separate code items. (But that is very seldom).

Yes, LabVIEW Embedded creates C code that you then invoke the tool chain on for the target processor. The interesting part is trying to go in the other direction.

Looks like a wet bar for programming to me :beer: :beer:

Been there, doing that ... The nice thing about this is that IE seems to be shielded behind the Firefox security.

Nice in theory, but sounds a bit like the tail wagging the dog. Usually when I go to buy something I already know exactly what part and whom I want it from. Browser difficulties are an annoyance, :headbang: but not something I switch vendors over, and certainly not what I would switch my banking over. It has, however, caused several emails to some of my vendors (and my bank) suggesting they upgrade to the 3rd millenium Lately, when I've needed to run IE, I did it in a tab hosted in Firefox. Seems to work fine.

I will get and install it, simply because some sites, businesses (like my bank) require IE (although more are allowing FF every day :thumbdown: ) But whenever I have a choice ... The Fox, Rocks !!

Many attributes for some camera's cannot be changed on the fly, only before or after an acquisition. You usually get more help, quicker, if you post the actual VI.

And I would add that you should post a VI (or VIs in a zip file) showing what you have already tried. If we see that initial effort, most Homework Hustlers (sorry, but that is your status at the moment) get help here.

The moon is cool. Someone obviously has an artist in the family.

Especially NI's current version of XML. It is a bit verbose, but does seem to work. I'd like to see them compact it up a bit, and include attributes about the data on the same line instead of multple lines.Again, not to take away from Sam's effort, which I think is great, but I like the INI version that Jim Kring did using the OpenG variant config file VIs. Sam's effort has the virtue of plugging in the file format of your choice. Perhaps this could be made an explicit plug in API. Keep up the good work Sam! Lastly, if someone is going to use XML, (ie, NI's XML) it becomes marginally more readable if you indent it. There is a VI on NI Dev Zone to do this. Reformat LabVIEW XML for Simple Text Editors

Rules of (Data) Acquisition #334: "Thou Shalt Not Sequence" Or there will be consequences ... Couldn' resist that one, the coffee is great this morning.

Can a thread on Godwin's Law be terminated by invoking Hitler? It's a Monday, I haven't had my second cup of coffee ...

For tracking of objects, in this case people, you might want to look at the Reading People Tracker project. It includes the theory and algorithm development. You can download the source code. Googling on "Reading People Tracker" will get you a lot of examples of what others have done with this code after they got it to compile. I should add that it is not LabVIEW code, it's text based, but it should give you a good foundation on some of the practicalities of tracking multple irregular objects and features on those objects, that you can translate into LabVIEW. Good luck!

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